What A Difference 30 Years Makes

May 26, 2012 10:34

I'm pretty sure that if you told a cover artist that you book contained a male vampire nowadays, you'd get a broody emo pretty boy in the late-teens to mid-twenties range. But, let us travel back in time to the eighties. I give you Path of the Eclipse.

From the Goodreads summary: China, Tibet, India 1213-1219.






From the background figures on the first one, I guess someone told the artist something about the book, but I'm pretty sure:
  1. Nobody in Europe dressed like that at the time.
  2. Nobody, even Europeans, in China, Tibet, or India dressed like that at the time.
  3. That if the main character showed up next Halloween, appropriately dressed for your "Come as a clichéd vampire" themed party, he still would not be dressed like that.

wtf, books, rant

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